Gay Male Fiction Since Stonewall: Ideology, Conflict, and Aesthetics

Arguing that gay fiction is torn between assimilative and radical impulses, this study focuses on fiction by White, Holleran, Leavitt, Cunningham, Hollinghurst, Cooper, Mars-Jones and others, positing the existence of two distinct strands of gay fiction, where opposing impulses are at work within individual texts.

Author: Les Brookes
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 01/26/2010
Pages: 244
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d
ISBN: 9780415880732

About the Author

Les Brookes is an associate lecturer at The Open University, tutoring in twentieth-century literature. He has written articles for Overhere: A European Journal of American Culture and given papers at Warwick University and the Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies.